Mission 89 programs featured prominently during the five-day Darfur Dreams Initiative in July that brought together internally displaced youth and children from local camps. The Mission 89 educational programs were implemented in workshops that...
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In the second part of our interview with photographer Jason Andrew on his “Black Diamonds” project, he reveals some of the personal struggles the players went through and the complex nature of the international movement of young players –...
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Photographer Jason Andrew grew up in California, USA, and taught at an elementary school for four years before studying photography. He has since been published in Time, the Financial Times, the New Yorker, and the British Journal of Photography...
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An increasing number of young, talented footballers are coming to Europe from Africa. They dream of a career in European sport. The professional football industry is competitive and can be ruthless. Players who have traveled from Africa are often...
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It is a story replicated at alarmingly high rates in Africa and Europe: upcoming footballers, mostly in their teens, are lured to Europe under the guise of a career in the continent’s top football leagues. Many of these teens and their families...
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A 10-year-old social media star from Kansas City is moving to Rome – with his entire family. How? An application for dual citizenship gets him around FIFA Article 19. In the south of Kansas City on a corner of 43rd Avenue there is an...
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